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Students are usually the ones most likely to trash the place.

No, I don't have citations, but I have been a landlord and know many others who are/have.
Yeah. GCD queues are now Objective-C classes IIRC.
As someone who has bootstrapped themselves to a basic level of coding knowledge thanks to Google, I'll ask the potentially stupid question: How do I learn how to do unit testing? I know what it is but I have no idea how to go about it. Resources?
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> More intriguing is what happens next. As Fisher explains, low scores will cause a comment to fade to grey and, if the score is really low, it will disappear altogether.

That's an idea they either borrowed from HN, or it's a case of simultaneous invention. I think the first.
A cheap device with tremendous ease of use and explicit details about security and how to deal with it would appeal to a set of informed consumers, and appeal wildly to a broad set of developers and hackers. I don't see a failure to gain traction among the "average" consumer to be a real problem with execution.
This seems like a prime example of how a startup should reply to a blog post like this. Quick, honest, and with a solution in the works.
Sure. This was just meant as an interesting tidbit. On ARM v8, you'll still need the compiler/VM to help you out as far as type precision goes, of course.
I'd just like to point out that this is a classic "Overnight"... well, after 6 months of crazy hard work "success" story.
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I would add that mentors can help with the learning, hold your hand a bit while you navigate new situations or learn new behaviours for past situations that didn't go as well as planned.
Unfortunately, Nasdaq and NYSE are not charitable organizations. They are for-profit companies. Why don't you go ahead and make history by creating the type of exchange you described? I don't see how the law would intrinsically stop you, though the economics of running a company might.
I think that the use of fuzzy, non-objective criteria means almost anybody can meet the job description. "Comfortable"? "know how to make the unthinkable happen"? Meaningless unless these are tech job ad code words that I am unfamiliar with.
cat /proc/cpuinfo. That is what the kernel says about the cpu, which is about as much info as you are going to get without some database lookup on specification data given a model number.
i might send money to appear ona credits page, just for fun.

maybe he should open an auction on equity in the unknown project. that could be fun too.
you forgot 0. He's an Apple fanboy. The other reasons are just after the fact justifications.
What is your language? the answer can be rspec, junit, selenium, etc based on the language and framework.

basically unit testing is on the function/class/module basis.

you break your design into modules, each having a clear role, and make them plug into each other in a way that you can "mock" the "rest of the world" (e.g. other objects) and test only that part.

to give an example, let's say you create a car, the unit test is to take a wheel, and spin it as if it's on the road, but without a car. take the lights, and plug them in as if they are in the car, take the engine and run it as if it's connected to the transmission, etc. in a car it's a bit more difficult, but in code, if your view needs a model, it doesn't matter if it was created from a database, a text file, or coded, as long as the interface fits.
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No, elance is something else - people on elance are not good for a quick, off-the-cuff 1 hour conversation. With elance there's a definite project start date and a definite project end date, and a deliverable that is either delivered or not. There's a large market for outsourcing this kind of long-term or even medium-term development - there's a very basic distinction between hiring someone else to fully do it during their own time vs. you doing something yourself and having someone educate you and walk you through it. After all, you can always reject the work someone did on elance, because the payment is per-project. In a mentoring situation, you can't really say "well, our conversation wasn't helpful", unless the mentor spent the whole conversation talking about something completely irrelevant - the act of mentoring is a little more amorphous.

What you are actually talking about is something along the lines of what lawyers do: you purchase a set amount of hours upfront (a retainer), and then you reach out to them with specific problems as they arise, until you use up all the time you've purchased. Sure, there might be a market for all kinds of professionals to sell their future services for retainers.

With regards to me mentoring you: sure, e-mail me, we can chat more.
The example you gave is one in which a woman must learn to get along with someone with whom she really has nothing in common. But that's not the usual case, where you simply choose people to associate with, absent special circumstances.

As to the basic question "How do I get over my low tolerance for stupid people?", I have to ask, why do you want to get over it? What do such people offer you that represents an improvement over an empty room and few well-chosen books?
Typical US equity trading hours roughly coincide with normal working hours. Not many people would want to stay around too late. Even if they did, the liquidity they need may not be there because most people have stopped working for the day.
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I don't claim to know everything, neither should you. We all learn constantly.

And I'm a student (not a full-time developer) and live far, far, far from Silicon Valley and everything I've built so far was either small things (like simple websites and school projects) or big projects (like ranking algorithm for a search engine) that were to be deployed on local servers (i.e. machines we bought and could physically touch - no fancy cloud computing stuff as you put it). I had never used ec2 before, and didn't know transferring data between multiple ec2 instances is fast and free to the point that you can deploy such a vital part of your server application on another machine (I knew it was free between your own ec2 machines, but I didn't know it's fast and free between all those millions of ec2 instances that are running in a region and aren't own by you).

I don't feel ashamed for not knowing that. The good thing about HN is that while most people here are extremely knowledgable, they rarely laugh at you when you ask something that's trivial (to them).
For some reason, the framework looks like something that could potentially be packaged in a nice DSL inside a gem for rubymotion.

Probably is just the lack of sleep talking here.
Thanks for sharing this with the community!
As dagw said, it pretty much depends on what you're doing.

We have dev, test and stage instances that are almost always off. I'm not going to reserve those at all, because I won't generate enough charge on them over the course of a year to even meet the initial payment.

For our production instances, yes, obviously we're reserving, but there are lots of cases where you wouldn't. Even with production instances, we occasionally spool up another instance to handle load spikes, for which we don't boot a reserved instance.

In another of our apps, we actually spool up a new AWS instance to handle customer requests. The user clicks a button on a website, uploads a (large) file, which we spool up an instance to process for awhile, return the results then shut the instance down. That kind of usage isn't really suitable for reservation.
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It's not "Hey I have a great idea and maybe a nerd will build it for me."

If you're a "just pontificating about stuff" bizdev, this isn't for you.

Kudos for saying this aloud!
Note writing apps that works with Dropbox. I have both Notesy and WriteRoom. They help me keep track of ideas or draft posts.

iPhoto. I never get around to touching up my photos once I'm on my laptop. Now I can do it on my phone.

I don't think price matters for my choices (so far). I was one of the first to buy OmniFocus ($20 or was it more?), haven't been using it for years.
Is the content good?
Apple also tries to promote the use of dropping the "the" and just referring to iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc. Should we also do this too, in deference to Apple?
Sure, it's still a hard problem, like carpentry is a hard problem. I've never had to do it because it's been solved for 20 years, but I'm fairly sure I'd get great at it if it were my day job.
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I am routinely baffled at some of the choices content-holders make regarding not just Hulu, but on-demand availability of their content.

I remember when I first began watching "Shameless" on Showtime. I had missed pretty much the entire season before somebody recommended it to me. I found it on Verizon's "On-Demand" and watched a couple episodes, loved it, then came back the next day to find out that all the episodes had been pulled off of On Demand for a few months.

I can only assume it was pulled to keep from scavenging DVD sales or something like that, but at that time, I hadn't watched enough to build up a love for the show that would have persuaded me to buy a DVD.

I work from home, so I will often put TV shows on that I can mindlessly watch while I'm working. This generally excludes shows that require lots of attention, but most prime-time shows are pretty digestible with only a modicum of attention required.

All too often, despite having all channels on FIOS, Netflix, Hulu Plus et al, I find that I can't watch the first season of a new show that looked interesting.

You should _always_ give away at least the first few episodes so that I can get hooked. I don't have a problem with releasing the episodes the day after, or even a week late... but don't deny me the ability to fall in love with your show by only showing me the past few episodes, unless your show is only into its fifth episode of the first season.
I'd bet it is, but I imagine it would be really hard to prove. The original turing-completeness proof [1] for discreet cellular automata worked by setting up some predictable repeating patterns and then using these to encode a representation of some other simple machine that was known to be turing-complete. Getting anything repeatable out of this would obviously be much harder, as any slight perturbation would cause unpredictable effects (see: chaos theory). However, I haven't read the paper so maybe they have some way of setting up the system that enables repeatability.

1. http://www.complex-systems.com/pdf/15-1-1.pdf
So this is the second humiliating reversal of a ban for Judge Lucy Koh in a matter of months. I wonder how much impact it has on your professional career as a judge when you keep making high profile decisions that have to be overturned / rescinded a few months later?
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No need to have to choose there -- you've been able to run Flask on AppEngine for some time now.
You're not. Also of note is that you could simply choose to run Flask on GAE.
Are you sure people don't book a vacation online? It seems the weakest part of the argument. I booked my last vacation almost completely online, albeit from different vendors. The flight was booked online, then the hotel (also online), and finally my car, online. The only time I've used a travel agent is when I travel to places that aren't online, such as Kenya, where I needed a local agent to find a driver and map out a route.
Yes. Unfortunately that's a question no one can answer but you. I think even the company posting the advertisement won't know whether you're suitable until they meet you.

If you think a bit more deeply about this, you may realize a company may have any number of reasons for overstating the requirements for a position. They may want to be able to reject anyone, however well-suited, based on real criteria they're unwilling to reveal, like gender, race or ethnicity. An obvious way to recruit based on secret criteria is to greatly overstate the requirements, then accept someone who doesn't meet them on the ground that they meet the secret requirements.

I'll bet you didn't think of that angle. :)
Ask HN: Can someone with just CSS/HTML experience get a tech job?
Is there a job market for people with just CSS3/HTML5 knowledge but nothing more?

EDIT: disclaimer - it's not me, it's a friend, but still the question is as important. it warms the heart to see how much support and good spirit HN community has, he'll love to read the replies. thanks.
We consumers might not like what they do, but I'm sure they know how to maximize profits. Why give shows away for free or a pittance, when people who care are willing to pay dollars per episode? I'm sure they're happy to give away quite a few users to whom an episode is worth a dime or a quarter in online ads, in exchange for getting to keep motivated viewers willing to buy the DVDs at $3 an episode.
I'd love to see something for longer trips that can be modified on the fly. I've done three 1-month long trips in my life where I went from city to city. They required a lot of planning and research, but often while traveling you'd learn of new options and have to quickly plan to incorporate those experiences into your current itinerary. Being able to quickly adjust your itinerary of a multi-hop vacation while en route would be nice.

Related to this would be a nearest neighbor point of interest discovery tool. Often its easy to find what is interesting to do in a particular location, but its much more difficult to explore options that are a day trip to an overnight trip away from that anchor point. My experience has been that the day trips or overnight trips with a return to the origin point at the most memorable.

Some examples:

-- Vacationing in Praia do Forte in Bahia, but taking a day trip to Mangue Seco.

-- Passing through São Luis do Maranhão and taking a three day trip to Barreirinhas, and from Barreirinhas, taking a day trip to Lençois Maranheses.

-- Day trip to Interloken from Zürich (I wish we had done an overnight trip, but we didn't plan on that and missed out)

-- Day trip from Amsterdam to a spa by the beach (unlike the other three, this one was not worth it and I wish I had known that before)

At the end of the day a great vacation often resembles a bunch of nodes in a graph, with edges being formed on the basis of financial cost, time cost and value of that destination/activity/hotel/restaurant to me. Find me the best route between node A and node B in the graph that maximizes happiness (According to my criteria) while minimizing cost and travel time.

Another reason it's valuable for this to be centralized is that it avoids the issue of being sent to some boring activity or place because you don't know that the local person may be recommending a venue on the basis that its his brother or cousins business. This happens surprisingly often.
I was following a URL that apparently was supposed to go to a specific subpage, not to the site homepage. And apparently there was a loginwall in front of that subpage. What good would clicking around the site have done?

If you think I was going to read all the pages I could access on the site, so that I could ascertain whether it was worth my while to log in, then you grossly overestimate my commitment to a poorly-explained link I clicked speculatively in a comment.
I think there is a niche market, yes. Just like there is a market for a paid twitter (app.net), there could be a market for paid for stackoverflow (just not something like experts-exchange).

I would call this "CTO for rent" or "tech lead by the hour"

note that there are many consulting companies that do exactly this, the thing is that they charge 100-200$ an hour.

I'm sure that in elance you can find someone willing to help for a nice reasonable fee.
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Good tutorial. You should check out Django. It comes with most of the script you have written plus a lot more and a really active community.
It was released in Australia this week. I have to think other places are coming pretty soon.
I understand and appreciate their right to do whatever they want to with it, but with perhaps very few exceptions, I can't imagine how you can justify not giving away the first few episodes as a loss-leader for people to actually get hooked on something.

If I can't see the first episode, the chances of me 'jumping-on' are effectively nil, and I'm certainly not going to pay for something I don't love and haven't seen.

Perhaps I'm not the average user, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that. And again, it's not like I don't respect their rights to do whatever the hell they want, it just doesn't make sense to me. Ultimately, there's not a TV show or movie that I can't live without seeing, but not ever letting me see your show isn't a way to maximize profits, at least from me.
regarding #1 very often you find out that you or someone else are the last piece in the asking chain, and stackoverflow is not always a solution. the solution is expensive consulting companies that will gladly take your money, but if there was some sort of service that can lower the costs, I think it might work. many companies seek external advise, especially for critical parts or new technologies.
there is already an industry of software consulting, and I think it can be disrupted.
Someone's gonna package this up and sell it as a product, for sure! A 21st century lava lamp.
They cited numbers, and I tend to believe them. Particularly for certain segments (like cruises). We booked a cruise in 2011 and it most definitely required an agent. There are just to many options and to much to weed through, the agents (who are free for me to use even) are just too easy for such a vacation.

I'm not even sure this is something that needs to be disrupted. My experience with actual people for booking these things has been fantastic. It's low stakes and relatively easy...I'm not sure online is better.
I learned on Django but have turned to Flask for my smaller projects after wrestling too many times with Django's poor handling of static files during development.
Colin - this is awesome and I just recently began working on an idea based on many of the same observations you've made. Just shot you an email to the contact@ address!
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It's very sad for me.

Marco, I love your insights. I would love to pay you and (by extension) pay the great writers you will find.

But I can't. I've wanted to get into the Apple ecosystem for years, but the hardware is simply too expensive. I've spent hours scanning eBay, NewEgg, and other outlets. Even dated Apple hardware is terribly expensive. I can't justify spending $150 for a 3GS, or $350 for an iPad 1. So I'll have to wait until your content is available on a platform that is easier to procure.

Yes, yes, it's better to do one platform right than to stretch yourself too thin. Certainly don't hamstring yourself in this fashion. Sadly, I confess that I feel like you've passed judgment on me for not having an Apple device, but I'll ignore that feeling. You do not bear the blame for this situation.

So all the best to you, Marco. Let me know if and when you make your content available on the Web or Android. Then I can pay you.
First - this is easily, beyond a shadow of a doubt, one the best online Magazine App for the iPad. It's ironic how Time, New Yorker, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic - all offer such horrible experiences that I've deleted them from my iPad. Only NYT and "The Economist" aren't totally crappy (Though neither of them download in that background on my iOS 6 iPad 3... Grrr - But I bet Marco's App supports background downloading.)

Second - The article on Volatiles and Stables was worth an entire years subscription by itself. Marco made it easy for us to copy/paste the text - didn't trap the content like all those crappy magazine systems normally do. I've been madly copying that article and forwarding it to everyone in the company, with a prominent link to "The Magazine".

I'm guessing that He'll get at least 10 direct new subscriptions through me alone. WHo knows how many indirect subscriptions...
See also this: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=988
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Not really. Siri wasn't introduced until iOS 5, and even then, would only run on one version of the 3 (3GS/4/4S) iPhones that could run iOS 5.
By the point of "desperate", you've already sold everything worth more than $10 that can be spared.
"... without authority makes, ..."

There are exceptions, e.g., for research and development.

Would printing a prototype of a product to be produced overseas (and never imported) be infringement?

When patent trolls start being linked to loss of jobs, i.e. linked to impeding the creation of new jobs, then IV is going to have a more serious PR problem.

pIt is the aggressive pursuit of the small inventor^1 that will signal the eventual demise of the trolling business, because at that point it will have become more than just tax collection on innovation from existing businesses. It will be an impediment to the formation of new businesses and the creation of new jobs.

1. Ironically it was the small inventor, with the help of an enterprising litigator like Niro, approaching the large company producing products, like Intel, that motivated to the term "patent troll". But truthfully, some small inventors do want to produce products. Some of them do start companies. All large companies were once small ones. If the trolling business is taken to its natural end, building an impenetrable thicket that can block any player in a given industry, are potential entrepreneurs going to pay a troll for a license just to _start_ a business? What do you think?
I also use Eagle and other packages:
kicad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiCad
gEDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA

For a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_EDA_software
[T]he Linux Foundation bootloader will present its own splash screen and require user input before it actually boots.

That is not a good compromise: I regularly remotely reboot linux machines. In the best case, the machine is in my basement (annoying). In the worst case, I have to drive 58 miles. Ouch.

I'm sensitive to this right now because I had to do that just this week. I did an upgrade and reboot on a machine that had the BIOS boot order set incorrectly - it was trying to boot off a non-bootable USB drive.